ted for the comeliness of their persons and the sweetness of
their manners.

After a stay of two or three weeks in Rangoon, I went round by the
British India steamer to Calcutta. Ill fortune awaited me here. The
night after my arrival I was laid down with remittent fever, and a few
days later I nearly died. The reader will, I am sure, pardon me for
obtruding this purely personal matter. But, as I opened this book with a
testimony of gratitude to the distinguished surgeon who cut a spear
point from my body, where nine months before it had been thrust by a
savage in New Guinea, so should I be sorry to close this narrative
without recording a word of thanks to those who befriended me in
Calcutta.

I was a stranger, knowing only two men in all Calcutta; but they were
friends in need, who looked after me during my illness with the greatest
kindness. A leading doctor of Calcutta attended me, and treated me with
unremitting attention and great skill. To Mr. John Bathgate and Mr.
Maxwell Prophit and to Dr. Arnold Caddy I owe a lasting debt of
gratitude. And what shall I say of that kind nurse--dark of complexion,
but most fair to look upon--whose presence in the sick room almost
consoled me for being ill? Bless her dear heart! Even hydrochlorate of
quinine tasted sweet from her fingers.

THE END.

[Illustration: CHINESE MAP OF CHUNGKING.]

INDEX.

Adridge, Dr., of Ichang, 10

d'Amade, Capt., in Yunnan, 150

Ancestral worship, 67

Anderson, Dr. J., cited, 274, 277

Anpien, 79

Anti-foreign riots, 9, 54, 268

Arsenal in Yunnan, 175

Augustine mission, 6

Baber, E. C., cited, 51, 90, 239, 267;
in Yunnan, 149;
in Bhamo, 285;
on distances, 187

Ball, Dyer, cited, 113, 224

Baller, Rev. F. W., cited, 113

Banks and banking, 95, 96, 163, 164

Barrow, Sir John, cited, 101, 110, 191

Beraud, Pere, of Suifu, 63, 65

Bhamo (Singai), 279-287

Bible Christian mission, in Chaotong, 99;
in Tongchuan, 121

Blakiston, Capt., cited, 173

Blodget, Rev. Dr., cited, 123

Boell, M., of _Le Temps_, in Yunnan, 150

Bonvalot, G., in Yunnan, 149

Bridges, some notable, 26, 83, 85, 118, 186, 233, 240, 242

Broomhall, B., cited, 66, 67

Browne, Col. Horace, 246, 267, 268

Bugs in China and Spain, 55, 56

Burdon, Bishop, cited, 123

Cameron, Dr., missionary traveller, 213

Cantonese, 207;
in Australia, 222-224

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